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Originally Posted by ecgram View Post
mechanism that accounts for the production of more than one protein by one human gene in most cases is due to

alternate splicing or polycistronic mRNA
its alternate splicing as many proteins are developing from same gene...transcript has only one gene but splits differently to produce more then 1 protein...

in polycistronic mRNA there are multiple genes...cistrone=gene
each gene in this give rise to single protein...so if such mRNA is transcribed multiple proteins are produced but from different genes...
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